blunted

verbmake dull

Synonyms for blunted

verb make dull

Antonyms for blunted

duller

adjective. not sharp

Word Origin & History

c.1200, "dull, obtuse," perhaps from or related to Old Norse blundra (see blunder (v.)). Of tools or weapons, late 14c. Meaning "abrupt of speech or manner" is from 1580s.

Example Sentences for blunted

His uneasiness, his exasperation, his scorn were blunted at last by all these trying hours.

Some of the finest intellects in the world have been blunted by liquor.

His feelings had become so blunted that he did not care how soon he was shot in the back.

A blunted peak and a low black line, from the glittering waste of snow.

They had, in effect, a ready-made craft not unlike a canoe with blunted bows.

His own offence counted as naught, so blunted was his moral sense.

It is a wrong to whose acuteness we are blunted by familiarity.

Before 1872 the keenness of Northern radicalism was blunted.

As I told you, in the presence of so much death the sensibilities are blunted.

Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.

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